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Nowhere to go : the tragic odyssey of the homeless mentally ill
- Title
- Nowhere to go : the tragic odyssey of the homeless mentally ill / E. Fuller Torrey.
- Author
- Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | RA790.6 .T67 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 256 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Examines the policy of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and what can be done about it.
- Subject
- Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization > United States
- Homeless persons > United States
- Deinstitutionalization
- Mental illness
- Mental health services
- Deinstitutionalization
- Ill-Housed Persons > psychology
- Mental Disorders
- Mental Health Services
- mental disorders
- 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology
- Mental illness
- Mental health services
- Homeless persons
- Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization
- Obdachlosigkeit
- Psychisch Kranker
- Psychisch gestoorden
- Thuislozen
- Mentally ill > Care and hygiene
- Homeless people
- Psychisch Kranker
- Obdachlosigkeit
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Dimensions of a disaster -- Making of the "mental health" myth -- "Conchies" and General Hershey create NIMH -- Freud and Buddha join the joint commission -- From the suffering sick to the worried well -- Psychiatrists who would be kings -- Signposts to a grate society -- Where did all the psychiatrists go? -- Politics of perdition: 1968-1988 -- Cicero's conclusion -- Appendix A: Deinstitutionalization of patients from public mental hospitals by state -- Appendix B: Who paid for the seriously mentally ill, 1963 and 1985: an analysis of government fiscal responsibility.
- ISBN
- 0060159936
- 9780060159931
- LCCN
- 88045065
- OCLC
- ocm18456634
- 18456634
- SCSB-1705965
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library